ALPHAVILLE (ALPHAVILLE, UNE ETRANGE AVENTURE DE LEMMY CAUTION), 1965, Janus Films, 99 min. Godard’s trip into the future with erstwhile B-movie hero Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) trekking through space to track down Professor “von Braun,” aided by the prof’s daughter Anna Karina, squaring off in a final showdown with the Alpha 60 computer. With familiar Euro B-movie veteran, Howard Vernon.
LA CHINOISE, 1967, Koch Lorber, 99 min. Philosophy student Anne Wiazemsky, actor Jean-Pierre Léaud and friends, crashing at an apartment lent to them for the summer, form a Maoist cell; and then... Godard’s tour de force of idealism, naïveté and flat affect includes red accents in nearly every shot.